Los Mexicles

Los Mexicles is a Mexican street gang that works as the armed wing of the Sinaloa Cartel and Gulf Cartel. The gang works for the Gulf Cartel in south Texas and the Rio Grande Valley, while it works for the Sinaloa Cartel in Ciudad Juarez. Los Mexicles was founded in 1987 in the Tennessee Colony of Texas, United States, and it grew to have 14,000 members. The gang became a predator in prisons, and it lost the support of many Mexican nationals for extorting weaker Mexican prisoners. In 1999, the gang began a war with the Barrio Azteca gang.